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Vikings colonies survived on Greenland for hundreds of years, so while chuckle-worthy I don't think this is a reasonable explanation.
by bpodgursky 10y ago
Vikings colonies survived on Greenland for hundreds of years, so while chuckle-worthy I don't think this is a reasonable explanation.
- kazinator 10y agoStill, the place name could well have retained its deceptive power for hundreds of years, coloring people's expectations. For hundreds of years, Viking real estate agents had a field day thanks to the name, I suspect. Every minute a new sucker is born, among Viking's too. Also, the Vikings wanting to get the hell out of Greenland would continue to have an incentive to lie to the ones who had never been there: like to be able to sell them their assets that are fixed or that they don't intend to take. Had Erik called it "Frozen Wasteland", that would have been it. No hundreds of years of settlement, nothing. The few lunatics would continue to have a hard time convincing anyone else to join them.
- bpodgursky 10y agoIf you read the article, you'd see the colony survived for a few hundred years even after trade with the mainland stopped. This is not a reasonable theory. Greenland was not peopled by clickbait marketing.